Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish قارتلاشمق (kartlaşmak, to grow old), equivalent to kart (hoary, old) + -laş (to become). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kạrï (old, to get old).[1]

Verb edit

kartlaşmak

  1. (slang, offensive) to grow old
    Synonyms: yaşlanmak, kocamak, ihtiyarlamak, karımak

Conjugation edit

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Further reading edit

  • kartlaşmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kạrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill